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Subject: Who lost more in space, Covenant or Humans?

"Shall we let the Flood consume our holy city? Turn High Charity into another of their wretched hives? No enemy has ever withstood our might. The Flood, too, shall fail."

-Prophet of Truth.

I am not talking about planets and the such, just ships and soldiers.

UNSC ratio to take down one Covenant ship was usually 4:1.

There were many space battles the UNSC lost.

However, High Charity had thousands of ships, but not all were confirmed destroyed.

Unyielding Heirophant lost 500 ships.

  • 06.09.2011 1:25 PM PDT

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I'd be inclined to say humanity, since the vast majority of the UNSC rallied at Earth after the battle of Reach. Only a handful of ships went to the Ark and made it back too.

But the Covenant had many setbacks, especially the NOVA bomb going off at Joyous Exultation where they lost many ships and Xytan.

  • 06.09.2011 1:46 PM PDT

"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum

Proper space battles or any sort of naval loses?

  • 06.09.2011 1:58 PM PDT

"Shall we let the Flood consume our holy city? Turn High Charity into another of their wretched hives? No enemy has ever withstood our might. The Flood, too, shall fail."

-Prophet of Truth.

I don't think there really were any naval battles lol. I don't remember reading any in the books or seeing any in any of the Halo games.

Just space.

  • 06.09.2011 2:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: TallestSpark
I don't think there really were any naval battles lol. I don't remember reading any in the books or seeing any in any of the Halo games.

Just space.


...what? Ghosts of Onyx had a naval battle.

  • 06.09.2011 2:18 PM PDT

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Posted by: TallestSpark
I don't think there really were any naval battles lol. I don't remember reading any in the books or seeing any in any of the Halo games.

Just space.


Space battles are handled by the Navy.....

  • 06.09.2011 2:28 PM PDT

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Posted by: TallestSpark
I don't think there really were any naval battles lol. I don't remember reading any in the books or seeing any in any of the Halo games.

Just space.

Space battles are handled by the Navy.....

So that's what he implied. I was like "What?" when he said that. :P

  • 06.09.2011 2:33 PM PDT

I imagine the UNSC lost more battles than they won, so they lost more of their navy.

however, given the number of ships the covenant had, the Great Schism, the Flood, and other human handiwork (the destruction of Unyielding Hierophant, etc.), I would say that the covenant probably lost more actual ships than they did.

humans lost a bigger percentage of their military fighting the covenant, but the covenant almost definitely lost more ships according to the numbers

  • 06.09.2011 2:39 PM PDT